I think it's a problem to talk about prehistoric people as if they all shared one culture. Whatever prehistoric people did, I highly doubt they all acted in concert, or that they adhered to whatever gender imperative we feel like proving on any given day.

I think Jon Stewart* captured it best when he said that people who talk about going back to simpler, gentler times are actually referring to when they were ten year olds.

*Pretty sure it was him, talking about Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly

Yup. That's why there's so much nostalgia for the 50's among certain groups. That's when all the old white men leaders were 10.

I think it's a problem to talk about prehistoric people as if they all shared one culture. Whatever prehistoric people did, I highly doubt they all acted in concert, or that they adhered to whatever gender imperative we feel like proving on any given day.

well, depending on the time period...they were basically animals who were guided by insitnct. they did not have a culture until they stopped being nomads.